Other Lives are kind of like a rustic little Radiohead Jr. (this is especially evident in their arrangements--just the way their songs flow is reminiscent of calmer/statelier RH), but that's merely what's on the surface. Imitation of a certain form, well, that's one of the ways to build your own thing. Rituals as an album ebbs and flows, one minute a slantwise companion to something like All Tiny Creatures' Harbors and another a continuation of Midlake's "Young Bride" (amazing song). Not really music that comforts or soothes, but music that you put on for a specific feeling: low-key drama, solving a case for household internal affairs (why are the towels in the bathroom still wet?), etc.[BUY Rituals]